1. Socratic Seminar
A Thinking Strategy

2. Do Now Sponge Silent Reading:
William Golding’s Lord of the Flies Plot Summary

3. What is your favorite way to learn?
Opener
Introductions: Our favorite way to teach kids
Introduce yourself to your shoulder partner…
What is your favorite way to learn?
Megan models ideas….
Dixie’s favorite way to learn is by doing…do the lab…

4. Anticipation Guide
Please read the instructions and complete the anticipation guide independently
Turn and talk for 2 minutes
Stand up if you agree, sit down if you disagree….stay standing if you are willing to share why…

5. Sharing a model Live model with teachers Live model with students
Video model using u-tube , teacher tube, or PD 360
Video model in local classroom
Video model of teachers seminaring
Megan-talk about ways you have modeled seminaring for your students.
Link to video-point to the back of the anticipation guide
Dixie: request out to teachers-I would love to video you seminaring so we can have share examples at our PLC when coming up with our high yield strategies…tied to different grade levels and contents.

6. Preamble to the United States Constitution
Follow day one plan…point these out to teachers

7. Video Debrief Stand Up/Hand Up Whole Group
Stand up/Hand up for a partner share with look fors
Come back together to create our whole group chart.

8. Dyad Read 1 page on Socratic Seminar Socratic Seminar Reservoir Room
Just to start…then summarize on own for time
Possible if time-stand up and review the 6.Record the 6 key components into the graphic frame.

9. Vocabulary Preview of the Text
Pre-reading strategy
Cognitive
Pernicious
Propensities
Hedge Funds
Incarcerating
Pragmatism
Important to preview a couple of vocabulary…can be very short, but important-write it up on board-no one is looking in a dictionary. They can just listen and it can be up on the whiteboard and leave it up there while they read
Pharmaceutical is a word that kids might know once they hear it, but won’t know how to decode it…

10. Seminar Prep: Group Reading of the Text
Read aloud and model “think aloud”
Turn and talk about this section of the text
Write down a short phrase to summarize this section of the text on your Read Aloud Notes
After the first 3, read on your own and write down what you think is the most significant line from the text
Mention that there are many silent reading strategies to use too, but we are modeling an oral reading strategy – the important thing is to USE a strategy and not just assume the kids can read it.

11. Socratic Seminar Review the 6 key principals with a partner
Outer Circle Job-track the conversation
OR pick one of the 6 important principals on the graphic organizer of seminar and make notes about where you see them being used or not being used
When the inner circle introduces themselves and reads their most significant line, record names on the back of your packet in a list or circle
Rally Robin the 6 key principals with a partner
Explain what out circle and inner circle will do
Head into the computer lab that is set up. Start with open ended question on the white board

12. Inner Circle Say your name and read your most significant line
Opening question:
What are the implications of Edward Glaeser’s article for how we teach boys and girls in our classroom?

13. Seminar Debrief SIM Frame
Open up the discussion so people can ask questions and share their ideas

14. Exit Slip
Bad Grammar